This Is A Gap In Digital Health Capability That Should Have Been Filled Long Since. Seems It Is Very Hard!

This appeared last week. Clinical Decision Logic Fun Posted on 22/10/2020 by wolandscat How close can we get to making a clinical decision logic language look like the published guidelines which it is used to encode? Below is an openEHR Decision Logic Module (DLM) example, in the current form of the openEHR Decision Language specification currently under development. Why another language? Well I ’ll answer that with: show me a language that does this, and we’ll use it instead (e.g. why not ProForma, Arden, GLIF etc?). Of course this language doesn’t yet solve all the problems, but we are taking two particular challenges seriously: the problem of ‘subject variables’ (aka ‘c urly braces’ or data access problem);getting the cognitive level of the language as close as possible to the cognitive level of the source materials and authors’ thinking. As background, our conceptual basics here. The following logic module is the logic part of the RCHOPS21 guid eline...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs